"Emigree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? But the spirit and the movements were those inimitable and unteachable Russian ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... "An emigree—a charming woman!" whispered Lady Delacour "she was to have been at the drawing-room to-day but for a blunder of mine: ready dressed she was, and I didn't call for her! Ah, Mad. de Pomenars, I am actually ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth |
